Dream a Dream

Dream a Dream works with the vision of empowering young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome barriers, manage conflict and realise their dre Read moreams, through mentorship and life skills programmes. The organisation works in collaboration with local schools, government, charities, corporate entities, volunteers, expert consultants and a host of national and international strategic partners. It helps connect communities and corporate employees with children through volunteer engagement programmes that encourage volunteers to contribute their time, skills and expertise towards the cause on a pro-bono basis. It has also won the 'Guide Star India NGO Transparency' award in 2016, featured three time in a row HundrED's annual Global Collection as one of the leading innovations in K12 education and is a WISE award winner.

To empower young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and thrive in a fast-changing world.

1.In 2021-22, we engaged 3223 young people with our After School Life Skills sessions through sport and art. Total Participants who Completed the After School Life Skills Programme 3096 - 1497 in Football and 1599 in Creative Arts.
88.2% Young people showed significant improvement in the Life Skills Assessment Score (LSAS) post completion of the After School Life Skills Programme
2. In 2021-22, we engaged 3069 young people with our Life Skills programme and Skill De- velopment programme. 1614 completed Life Skills Development programme and 744 completed the Skill Development programme. 200 placements were made and 305 scholarships were awarded. 103 young people each benefitted from the Mentoring programme and Fund my project programme.
Young people showed significant improvement in the Life Skills Assessment Score (LSAS) post completion of the Career Connect Programme 99.7%.
3. With COVID-19, the entire world was facing challenges we did not foresee.
While continuing to work towards Life Skills development, Dream a Dream
provided critical support to communities in our Direct Impact programmes.
We provided relief measures through a network of our alumni graduates, who
led from the front as COVID warriors and designed a robust support system.
23437 young people & teachers received ration kits, 542 young people received medical support, 767 young people and their family got vaccinated, 1100 people received device support to continue studies, 2933 young people and 2899 teachers received financial support.
4. Happiness Curriculum - In 2018, for the first time in the Indian public education system, the State Government of Delhi introduced a wellbeing focused curriculum from kindergarten to grade 8 across more than 1000 public schools reaching over 800,000 students. The curriculum dedicates 35 minutes every day for happiness classes based on mindfulness, stories, play based activities and expression activities that build empathy, critical thinking, reflection and other life skills in the students. As an anchor and knowledge partner, we helped the Department of Education in curriculum development, teacher training, evaluation, research and implementation of the Happiness Curriculum in all government schools. We advocated the importance of building facilitation skills among teachers to ensure effective delivery of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in classrooms.
5. STATE PARTNERSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT OF UTTARAKHAND - We established a partnership in 2019 to support implementation of the Anandam Pathyacharya - a holistic curriculum in government schools. We, along with other Civil Society Organisations, are creating a safe space model where students understand and express their emotions and feelings and learn to connect with themselves, family, society and nature. We support capacity building and life skills advocacy among teachers and other stakeholders in the educational ecosystem.
We developed the social emotional component of Bal Vatika, used across 5000 Anganwadi centres in Uttara- khand, for students in the age group of 5-6 years to prepare them for Grade 1.
6. STATE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA - Dream a Dream is a knowledge partner with the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Education- al Institutions Society (TSWREIS), Ministry of Scheduled Caste Development to introduce life skills approach in all TSWREIS schools and empower teachers with the life skills needed to build empathetic, creative and highly engaging classrooms for children coming from severe adversity and to equip them to integrate life skills in academic and non-academic sessions.
7. STATE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA - We signed an MoU with the Department of Education (Samagra Shikshana Karnataka - SSK) in 2022 to incorporate Life Skills and recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) in the Nali Kali Curriculum which is used in government schools. By co-creating the life skills / val- ue-based curriculum for SSK, we will impact 48,000 schools. We provided SEL inputs in govern- ment workshops for 76 school teachers and proposed the pilot of SEL approach and Happiness Curriculum for SSK. We have submitted a proposal for a Life Skills Curriculum in Kasturba Gand- hi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and Adarsha schools.
8. STATE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF JHARKHAND - Since December 2021, Dream a Dream is a part of Project Sampoorna, which is a Social-Emo- tional Learning (SEL) initiative for school-going adolescents by the Government of Jharkhand in partnership with a consortium of organisations. Project Sampoorna aims to apply a Whole Child Development lens in public education in India, emphasising the importance of a rich set of factors that enable children’s success in life and school. The consortium aims to improve Social-Emotion- al Learning (SEL) of 1 million adolescents by building systemic capability across all 24 districts in Jharkhand. As part of this consortium, we are working towards four long term outcomes in high- touch districts and schools of Jharkhand to ensure that 40,000 students:
• Overcome negative emotional experiences
• Solve complex problems effectively
• Strive for self-growth
• Have positive social interactions

Harsh Johar Curriculum of the Government of Jharkhand translates to joyful greetings and aims to develop creativity and social emotional skills in learners with a strength-based approach inte- grating inquiry-based learning with skill building. We contextualised the Harsh Johar Curriculum from Grades 1st to 5th and further helped develop the same for students of Grades 6 to 12.
6 training sessions enabled 150 teachers to develop a foundation in SEL, out of which:
• 96% of 150 teachers feel it is important for SEL to be a part of a student’s everyday learning practices
• 87% feel comfortable in teaching SEL to students
• 68% feel highly prepared to integrate SEL in classes.